NBA: I was the No. 1 pick at the beginning

The next day, the Lakers also came to San Antonio.

Came to San Antonio, although everyone didn't have the seriousness before.

But for this place, everyone in the Lakers still can't like it.

After all, the Lakers and the Spurs have a lot of grievances.

When the Lakers were still an OK combination, the Spurs and the Lakers were the two competing teams in the West.

After that, the Spurs were lonely for a while.

The competition between the two teams gradually became much less.

But with the game between the Lakers and the Spurs last season.

The two teams became enemies once again, and they were mortal enemies at that.

Although this season, the game against the Spurs did not appear like last season.

But the duel between the two teams is still very fierce.

So coming to San Antonio is not a good thing for the Lakers.

It's just that they really don't want to be here.

But there is no way, who made the two teams meet in the playoffs.

In the evening, the third game between the Lakers and the Spurs proceeded as scheduled.

In this game, coming to San Antonio's home court, it is obvious that you can feel the different pressure.

After all, as an evergreen tree in the West, the Spurs are basically a playoff team every year.

This also allowed their home fans to develop a natural temperament.

If this young rookie played such a game, he would definitely be very flustered.

Sure enough, after the game started, the Lakers had problems.

Jokic became nervous again.

To say that he has experienced the finals of last season, Jokic should not be like this.

But there is no way, the Spurs have two faces at home in the regular season and playoffs.

After all, the NBA's four major home games are home to the Spurs.

Jokic has a problem with this point, and the Lakers also have a big problem.

You must know that the tactics implemented by the Spurs in this game are still to defend Chen Tian.

So in the last game, the team's organizational responsibility was often on Jokic's side.

In the second game, Jokic also finished very well.

That's why Monty allowed Jokic to still organize the team in this game.

But this time Jokic's performance was unstable.

Chen Tian was still under guard.

The Lakers' offense messed up.

Fortunately, Kobe stood up in time.

After all, Chen Tian attracted the defense away, so if they can't get in again.

Then they may really be the same as CBA players.

But no one thought of it, this is really unavoidable.

In the first quarter, Chen Tian was still tightly surrounded and had no chance to make a move.

So Kobe stepped up.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers were only two points behind the Spurs.

After the start of the second quarter, the substitute players of the two teams also played a dozen games.

The two sides played very evenly.

The Spurs are dominated by Diaw and Ginobili.

Breaking through the Lakers' defense with pass-and-cut tactics.

As for the Lakers, after Chen Tian was double-teamed, JR, Yi Jianlian and others were able to score the ball.

The two teams are still on par.

But no one expected that after the two teams switched back to their main players in the second half of the second quarter, everything changed.

I don't know what's going on, Anthony's hand feeling is extremely bad tonight.

For the open three-pointers, three were not scored.

This also made the Lakers bench off the court feel incredible.

When Popovich saw this scene, he was very happy.

If the rest of the Lakers feel bad, then the Lakers are not far from losing.

Sure enough, the Lakers didn't know why, and they were all infected by Anthony.

Nobody feels good.

There is no way, Monty can only change his tactics and start playing inside.

But the Spurs' inside defense is really good.

This time, the Lakers' offensive efficiency came down.

The Spurs immediately seized the opportunity and started a wave of counterattack climax.

As a result, at the end of halftime, the Spurs had already led the Lakers by 10 points.

During the halftime break, the locker room on the Lakers side was also eerily quiet.

In fact, Monty didn't mean to criticize anyone.

After all, anyone with the ball will shoot for an open three-pointer.

It's all a matter of luck if you don't get in.

So Monty didn't arrange any other tactics, because the current tactics are the most effective.

Soon after returning from the second half.

The feeling of Anthony and the others still hasn't recovered.

Especially on Jokic's side, he has already made 5 turnovers.

Coupled with the team's bad touch, the result came back in the third quarter and the score reached a gap of 17 points in an instant.

But at this moment, the Spurs loosened their defense against Chen Tian.

Obviously, there is also complacency on the Spurs side.

Chen Tian immediately seized the opportunity and scored the ball in the next few attacks.

Even on the defensive end, Chen Tian directly blocked Duncan and Leonard's layups.

In an instant, the score was pulled back to single digits.

This time, Popovich's powder keg was ignited.

Immediately on the sidelines, Popovich breathed out.

But the Spurs still have to call them that.

The Spurs player who was scolded instantly also woke up.

The tactics against Chen Tian were implemented again.

Immediately, Chen Tian was also speechless, and he was looked at again after having just finished his craving.

Although Chen Tian pulled the score back.

But this still hasn't changed the situation that the rest of the Lakers feel bad.

Especially after Monty couldn't stand it anymore, and replaced it with JR and others.

As a result, this group of people didn't feel good.

This is really a bad thing, all bad.

In the end, nothing unexpected happened.

There was no big comeback, the Lakers lost to the Spurs in Game [-].

In the end, the Lakers defeated the Spurs 97:111.

The big score was also pulled back to 2:1 by the Spurs.

At the end of this game, the outside world is looking forward to the next game between the two teams.

After all, things like bad hand feeling cannot always happen.

So there is no frustration on the Lakers side.

If anyone is unhappy, it is Jokic.

After all, in this game, Jokic's performance is really unreasonable.

After returning to the hotel, Chen Tian also dragged Jokic to his room.

Kobe and Chen Tian also took turns to comfort Jokic.

Finally, Jokic regained his confidence.

After all, next season, Jokic will be a very important core of the Lakers, so he must not have any problems.

And another game between the Warriors and the Rockets.

After the Rockets returned to the Toyota Center, they completely exploded.

In the third game against the Warriors, the Rockets also went crazy with the Big Three.

The three scored a total of 74 points and directly took away the game.

The big score was also changed to 2:1.

Immediately, the two semifinals in the Western Conference were fierce.

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